A midnight baseball game … without artificial lights? Grab some caffeine and take a journey to Fairbanks, Alaska, for a stadium experience unlike any other. Read more

Coors Field or … Jurassic Park? Some 68 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed exactly where the Colorado Rockies' ballpark now sits. Here’s how we know. Read more

The first Delawarean inducted into the Hall of Fame was the great Judy Johnson, a Negro Leagues legend and a mentor for those who came after him. Read more

Today Dorsey Park is a nondescript ballpark, but in its heyday it hosted Negro Leagues luminaries like Josh Gibson and Satchel Paige: “The world would come here.” Read more

This stunning purple field at the College of Idaho is not just unique for its color, but for how it was made. You’ve never seen a baseball field like this before. Read more

Mickey Mantle hit his first pro homer in the small town of Independence. Did it land in a zoo exhibit named Monkey Island? You be the judge. Read more

Louisiana State University’s baseball program is a factory that churns out big leaguers, some of whom are among the biggest names in the sport right now. Read more

He was instrumental in scouting Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. In the end, he returned to his Christmas tree farm in Maine. This is the story of Clyde Sukeforth. Read more

The Eutaw Street homer plaques are a staple of Baltimore's Camden Yards and a must-see for any visitors going to an Orioles game. But how did they come to be? Read more

It feels like a little slice of baseball heaven in Massachusetts, everything that is perfect about summer, when you attend a Cape Cod League game. Read more

Jim Abbott has long been one of baseball’s most inspiring stories, but to hear him tell it, he owes so much to his hard-nosed upbringing in Flint, Mich. Read more

Want to take in a live baseball game from the comfort of your own apartment balcony? Only in Starkville, Miss. at the Left-Field Lofts at Dudy Noble Field. Read more

Gary Redus’ .462 average for the Billings Mustangs still stands as a Minor League record. But this story begins with some important advice from his mother. Read more

It’s an illusion that would have made Houdini proud, the greatest trick play ever executed, and on the grandest stage at the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. Read more

Major League Baseball is coming to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2028, when the Athletics move in, but there’s already a long history of the sport in Sin City. Let’s dive in. Read more

Jackie Robinson paved the big league path for his future teammates Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella, who got their trailblazing start playing together in Nashua. Read more

What is widely considered the first baseball game ever recorded took place almost 200 years ago in New Jersey, and it featured the Knicks? Now wait a minute … Read more

This is the story of Joe Bauman, who became the one-time home run king while operating a gas station just down the road from his home field in Roswell, N.M. Read more

A baseball field tucked in the mountains of North Carolina, where you can watch a game around a fire pit in an Adirondack chair? What could possibly be better. Read more

An opera performance, a wrestling match or a wedding, all at the local ballpark? These are the Portland Pickles, who embrace the weird. Read more

Octavius Catto, an early civil rights leader and pioneer for voting rights, also was the architect behind the first recorded interracial baseball game, in Philly. Read more

It took eight-plus hours over 33 innings, and the frigid wind forced the players to build fires in the dugout. This is the epic saga of the longest game ever played. Read more

A high school team outside Charlotte has an especially emotional sendoff for its seniors, with every player taking a “last childhood lap” as their parents await at home plate. Read more

The short porch at Yankee Stadium is no comparison to the right-field fence at Sulphur Dell, which was 262 feet from home plate. Here’s the story of the old ballpark in Nashville. Read more

The booming “Ball 5” chant is a staple at the home ballpark of Texas A&M, and it’s been known to put pitchers in a blender. So how did it come to be? Read more